San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-07-07

over the corpse 81 FOUlata. All the man.
hood seemed To nave gone out Of Us. The
first shock If this idea of the slow and mis-.
rrlb'e cnl that awaited Us was Oyrrpuwpr.
in We saw it all now: that firmd ca .nol
hal planned this snare for Us from tlr al T..
1t would have been just the jest that iuI
evil mimi would have reiuced in, th,Idel ni
tn" t.lrre white men. whom, for some r,a.
sou Of her own, she had always hated, SOW.
ly perishing Of thirst and hunger in the com.
pany Of the treasure they had coveted. I
saw the p lint of that sneer of hers about
eating and drinking the diamonds now. Per.
IHpS som body had tried To serve the pool
old don in the same way, when he abandon.
ed the skin full Of jewels.
This will never do" said Sir Henry,
hoar,e :; the lamp will soon 90 out Let
Us see If we can't lind the spring that WORKS
the rock
We sprung forward with desperate ener
gy, and standing in a bloody oUze, began tc
feel up and down the door and the sides Of
the passage. BIT no l. o. or spring could
we discover.
I'D p nj on it, said. lit does not work
from Ia" inside; if it did GagOOl would not
have riSked trying to crawl underneath the
made her try 10 escape at all hazards, curse
her"
AT all events" said Sir Henry. with Q
hard little laugh, ''retributiOn was swift
hers was almost as awful an end as ours Is
likely 10 be. We can do nothing with the
door: let us 90 back to the treasure-rOom.'
We turned and went and as We did so
perceived by the unfinished wall across the
Il.
lata had carried. | took it up, ant
brought ii with me back to that accurseC
treasure -chlmber that was to be our grave
Then we went bacE and reverently bore il
FOulata's corpse, lay ing it on the floor BY
the boxes of coin.
'l,at us divide the food" said Sir Henry
$50 rs to make Il last as lon" MS possible
Accordingly we did 50. 1t would, we reclI
Oncd, make four enthusiastically small meal,
for each OF us, cnn@gh, say, Ia support lif,
for couple ot DAYS. Besides the "bil
tong" or dried gamthrsh there were two
gOurds of water, each holding about quart
Now" said Sir Henry, ''let us eat ant
drink, for tomorrow we die"
We each eat a small portion of the "bil
tong and drank a sip Of water. We had
nee Hess 10 say, hut little appetite, though
we were sadly in need of food, and felt bet
ter after swallowing it. Then we got M
and made systematic examination of The
walls Of our prison i,nuSe, ia the faint hope
of tinaing SOM means of exit, sounding
them and the floors carefully.
There was none. 1t was not probable
that there wou Il be on to treasure-cham.
Der.
The lamp bean 10 burn dim. The fat
WITS nearly exhausted.
"QaItcrmlin, SAL Sir Henry, what is
the tim"-yOul waite G,c,"
drew it out, m 10 ,k2d at it. It was SIX
O'Clock; we had entered the cave at eleven.
'InfadoOs will miss us suggested. 'lf
we do not return tonight he will search for
us IN the morning, Curtis
'He may search in vain. He does not
know the secret of the door, not even where
ii is. No living person knew it yesterday,
except GagOOI. To-day no one knows it,
Even if he found the door he could moi
break it down. All the Kukuana army
could not break through five feet OF living
rock. My friends. St, nothing for it but
to bow ourselves to the will of the Almighty.
The search for treasure has brought many
~ Il pau emu we SIl III 20 10 swell IlcIt mum
ber"
The lamp grew DINNER yet.
Presently it tlirel up and showed the
whole scene in bold relief. the great mass OF
white tuSks, the boxes full Of gold, the
corpse of poor Fouata stretched before
them, the gOat-Slin full of treasure, the dim
glimmcr of the diamonds. and the wild
wan faces Of MS three white men, seated
| there awaiting death by starvation.
| Suddenly il SIInk and eNnrel.